Improvement in tongue-supports for vehicles



DNI'IED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JAMES MGOARTER, 0E FRANKFORT, INDIANA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 16] .696, dated April6, 1875; application filed February 20, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAnEs MOOARTER, of Frankfort, Clinton county,Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in \Vagon-Tongue'Supports, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 represents a top view and Fig. 2 is a side view, partly insection, on the line 0 0, of my improved Wagon-tongue support.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to an improved springsupport for Wagon-tongues, bywhich the jerky action of the tongue and the strain on the horsesarising therefrom on the passage of the vehicle over rough and unevenground may be to considerable extent avoided. The invention consists ofa U shaped piece of springwire, which carries, at the front part, atonguesupporting pulley, being bent spirally around side pulleys of thepivot bolt, connecting tongue and hounds, and applied with the rear endsequidistant from the king-bolt to the front axle.

A represents the U-shaped spring-support, of steel wire, of suitablethickness, which is designed to be used as a tongue-supportingattachment for road-wagons and other heavy draft-vehicles. The frontpart of the support A is placed under the tongue, and provided with apulley, B, for preventing the wearing of the tongue as it is raised ordepressed by the jerks caused by the unevenness of the ground. The sidesof spring-support B pass, by spirally-bent parts, over pulleys orrollers O, which are placed on the pivot-bolt of the tongue and houndsat the outside of the hounds. The rear ends of support A are curved tofit the front axle, and placed to bear thereon at equal distance fromthe kingbolt. The spring power of the support is transmitted from theaxle. and tongue-bolt to the under side of the tongue, so as to beinstrumental in relieving the horses from the violent strains of thetongue when passing over rough roads.

I do not claim as new and of my invention the method of supporting thepivoted tongues of vehicles by means of a spring connected with thehounds on the front axle thereof; but

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A support for wagon-tongues, consisting of a tonguebearing front pulley, in combination with a spring attached thereto,bent spirally around side pulleys of the tongue-pivot, and having itsrear ends fitted to the front axle, substantially asand for the purposeset forth.

JAMES MOOARTEB.

Witnesses:

EDWARD KRAMER, FRANCES M. REED.

